Alexander the Great had dealt the Achaemenid Empire a series of devastating defeats at the Granicus (334 BCE), Issus (333 BCE), and Gaugamela (331 BCE). He had also captured vast swathes of ...

More than 2,300 years ago, one of Alexander the Great's most major battles took place at a site near the Biga River in Çanakkale Province in northwestern Turkey. The river was known as the ...